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Hereupon Claudius called for the ambassadors; and told them that
he granted their request; and bade them to return their thanks to Agrippa
for this favor, which had been bestowed on them upon his entreaty. And
besides these answers of his, he sent the following letter by them: "Claudius
Caesar Germanicus, tribune of the people the fifth time, and designed consul
the fourth time, and imperator the tenth time, the father of his country,
to the magistrates, senate, and people, and the whole nation of the Jews,
sendeth greeting. Upon the presentation of your ambassadors to me by Agrippa,
my friend, whom I have brought up, and have now with me, and who is a person
of very great piety, who are come to give me thanks for the care I have
taken of your nation, and to entreat me, in an earnest and obliging manner,
that they may have the holy vestments, with the crown belonging to them,
under their power, - I grant their request, as that excellent person Vitellius,
who is very dear to me, had done before me. And I have complied with your
desire, in the first place, out of regard to that piety which I profess,
and because I would have every one worship God according to the laws of
their own country; and this I do also because I shall hereby highly gratify
king Herod, and Agrippa, junior, whose sacred regards to me, and earnest
good-will to you, I am well acquainted with, and with whom I have the greatest
friendship, and whom I highly esteem, and look on as persons of the best
character. Now I have written about these affairs to Cuspius Fadus, my
procurator. The names of those that brought me your letter are Cornelius,
the son of Cero, Trypho, the son of Theudio, Dorotheus, the son of Nathaniel,
and John, the son of Jotre. This letter is dated before the fourth of the
calends of July, when Ruffis and Pompeius Sylvanus are consuls."

Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.

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